Lori M Olson Happy Boxing Day! Yup, I am from šØš¦ so today is actually a holiday. Since Iām taking this whole week off, I cued up some content in advance for you. Hope you had a Merry Christmas, and that everyone has a Happy New Year š.
Featured in the School
Iām experimenting a bit with a new setup that helps you tell me about your interests. If you go to the WNDX School now, there will be a set of little question pop-ups that ask a bit about you and your RubyMotion interests. Follow the link and let me know how I can serve this community better!
Slack Highlights
In another discussion kicked off by Matias Forbord, we talked about this: AWS Lambda announces Ruby support. Itās now possible to run stuff like, say, push notifications, on AWS serverless using Ruby. This is interesting for those who want to have a single language stack.
To repeat one last timeā¦ we cancelled the December RubyMotion Meetup (these are held online).
Current schedule seems to be causing some participation difficulties. Come on in to the #meetup
channel and chime in about any days / times that are better or worse for yourself if youād like
to participate regularly! These are great ways to meet your fellow community members, and hear
about the projects they are working on.
And if you havenāt signed up for Slack yet, you can get access by going to motioneers.herokuapp.com.
Gem of the Week
Hereās a repo (not officially a gem) that adds auxiliary commands to RubyMotion. If you have any cool extra commands you use that youād like to contribute, so that everyone can benefit, please fork, add your command, and open up a pull request! I donāt know about you, but Iām really looking forward to motion doctor!
Iām featuring RubyMotion gems here each week. Sometimes because they are awesome, and sometimes because they need some love. Remember, if you have a gem youād like featured, just reply to this email, or you can PM me in Slack!
Community Forum
From a while back, we have this frequently recurring problem of requested deployment target SDK is not available. Pretty much every major release, in September, this comes up. Once a new SDK has been released, and RubyMotion has been updated to support it, the Starter edition is fixed on that new SDK. So you need to upgrade yourself to all the new stuff (to use Starter) or purchase an Indie license (so you can target any supported SDK). Itās really hard to test this stuff (every permutation of operating system, Xcode version, iOS version, etc) so there are frequently issues. If you experience this problem, make sure you come and ask for help in either the forum or Slack, and someone will help you troubleshoot.
And hereās your reminder to introduce yourself on the Hello World post on the community forum!
App Highlight of the Week
Got a nice one this week, thanks to Dave Trollope. Whose Turnā¦? helps you figure out whose turn it is toā¦ pay for lunch, or any meal, or even get your kids to figure out whose turn for that annoying chore! Includes a way to sync between phones. Neat app, Dave!
Psst!!! If you have an app (even if itās not in the App Store) send me the details, and Iāll add it to the list to be featured!
TWIL (This Week I Learned) Links
Hey, check out Amirās interview on the Ruby Rogues podcast, talking about āRubyMotion and the Aesthetic of Rubyā.
Thatās it for this week!
Regards, Lori